Tarantino, Quentinin full Quentin Jerome Tarantino ( born March 27, 1963 , Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.American director and screenwriter whose films are noted for their stylized violence, razor-sharp dialogue, and fascination with film and pop culture.

Tarantino worked in a video store in California before selling two screenplays that became True Romance (1993) and Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers (1994). In 1992 he made his directing debut with Reservoir Dogs, a violent film about a failed jewelry store robbery. Two years later he established himself as a leading director with Pulp Fiction. The controversial provocative film, which featured intersecting crime stories, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival, and Tarantino later received (with Roger Avary) an Academy Award for best original screenplay. His later films include For Jackie Brown (1997); , he adapted an Elmore Leonard novel about a flight attendant entangled in criminal activities.

Tarantino subsequently wrote and directed Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) and Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004), which centre on a trained assassin (played by Uma Thurman) and her quest for revenge; and Death Proof. Grindhouse(2007), an homage to B-movie double features, paired Tarantino’s Death Proof, a thriller about a homicidal stuntman. In 2009 he directed the , with Robert Rodriguez’s horror film Planet Terror. Tarantino’s next two films took an irreverent approach to history. Inglourious Basterds (2009), set during World War IIdrama Inglourious Basterds, which follows a group of Jewish American soldiers trained to kill Nazis in German-occupied France, and Django Unchained (2012), set in the antebellum American South, tells the tale of a freed slave attempting to rescue his wife from a cruel plantation owner. In addition to writing and directing, Tarantino also worked as an actor and producer.